Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
In a study submitted to the environment ministry last month, the Central Pollution Control Board has identified Yamuna and Hindon as the most polluted among 13 rivers in UP. CPCB has identified polluted stretches in 13 rivers, affecting 37 towns and cities of the state. According to the report, pollution …
The Centre will prepare a roadmap within 45 days to find a solution to the SYL canal and other inter-state issues between Haryana and Punjab. This was conveyed by Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at a meeting here today. The minister informed Khattar …
Differences of opinion among the members of a panel set up to decide on the 'Environmental Flow' in Yamuna river has forced the Ministry of Water Resources to ask them to arrive at a consensus so that their report can be submitted to another body set up by the National …
With the civic agencies facing the heat from the National Green Tribunal for sitting on the Yamuna revitalisation project, the Delhi Development Authority has invited expression of interest from NGOs and other agencies for treating religious waste generally disposed of in the river. The DDA had on March 28 invited …
Green tribunal cracks the whip; asks DDA and other agencies to file report Unhappy with the lethargic attitude of the authorities to clean Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday sought to know how many people have been prosecuted for throwing waste in and along the river and how …
The green bench directed the Secretary of Delhi government, CEO of Delhi Jal Board, three expert members of the tribunal to be present at 3 pm on April 1 for meeting in the chamber. The National Green Tribunal has warned authorities in Delhi of “coercive steps” including attachment of accounts …
The environment ministry has come in for criticism from the National Green Tribunal for its slow response in tackling the problem of illegal mining on the Yamuna riverbed between Noida and Faridabad. More than a month after the green court set up a committee to look into the magnitude of …
The National Green Tribunal has warned authorities in Delhi of “coercive steps,” including attachment of accounts and imprisonment for not implementing its orders on keeping Yamuna clean. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swantanter Kumar took strong exception to the failure of the authorities to act with “requisite seriousness …
CHANDIGARH: At a time when Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is blaming Haryana for cutting of raw water supply to the national capital territory, the latter has offered setting up of a monitoring committee to keep an eye on the supply. "The monitoring committee can check daily supply of water …
Activists gathered along the banks of the Yamuna here to demand an early clean up of the river that is the lifeline to millions in northern India. Dozens of people offered special prayers on the river bank and sought the cleaning of the ghats and the demolition of illegal structures …
Mathura: After staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the "nirmal aur aviral" (clean and uninterrupted flow) campaigners are back in Braj. The leaders of the movement hope that the central government will soon issue a notification under the Environment Protection Act to release water into the river …
NEW DELHI: The Centre may have assured the Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan protesters that the "ecological flow" in the river will be restored in Delhi, but experts say this can't be done without revisiting the 1994 water sharing agreement between Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. They suggest that …
The Centre may have assured the Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan protesters that the "ecological flow" in the river will be restored in Delhi, but experts say this can't be done without revisiting the 1994 water sharing agreement between Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. They suggest that the central …
Events around World Water Day, which is marked every year on March 22, may remind everyone about the implications of dwindling water reserves due to population pressure and pollution but the message is, somehow, lost in absence of adequate action on the ground by stakeholders, including the government. The water …
After assurances from the Centre, thousands of Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan (YMA) protesters, who had been camping in Delhi since Friday, were on their way back to Mathura and other parts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. The Centre has promised that the "ecological flow" in Yamuna downstream of Delhi will be …
The government has promised to bring the Yamuna river under the the Environment Protection Act within two months to ensure "free flow of the river". Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad gave this assurance to the members of Yamuna Muktikaran Padyatra, undertaken for making Yamuna pollution free, here today, said Ravi Monga, …
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today said a meeting of Upper Yamuna River Board has been called on March 20 to amicably sort out various issues related to the river among UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi. Addressing a group of Yamuna Muktikaran Padyatrees near Palwal at Haryana, she said …
The All India Lokadhikar Sangathan has written to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee urging it to immediately execute the National Green Tribunal’s order of shutting down stainless steel pickling units in Wazirpur, New Delhi. “We are in the process of moving an application before the Tribunal soon for the execution …
